Tsugaru Street
| Tsugaru Street | ||
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| Connects waters | Japanese sea | |
| with water | Pacific Ocean | |
| Separates land mass | Honshu | |
| of land mass | Hokkaidō | |
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| Geographical location | 41 ° 30 ′ N , 140 ° 37 ′ E | |
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| Smallest width | 19.5 km | |
| Greatest depth | Max. 449 m | |
| tunnel | Seikan tunnel | |
The Tsugaru Strait ( Japanese 津 軽 海峡 Tsugaru-kaikyō ) is a strait between the islands of Honshū and Hokkaidō in northern Japan . It connects the Sea of Japan with the Pacific . The east-west extension is approx. 100 km, the north-south extension 20 to 50 km. The maximum water depth is 449 m.
Surname
Tsugaru Road was named after Tsugaru County , which used to encompass the entire northwest of what is now Aomori Prefecture and is now the name of several successor counties and a city. An earlier name is Sangar Strait . For Europeans this was researched by Adam Johann von Krusenstern in the 18th century.
Crossing
The Seikan Tunnel passes the strait at the narrowest point (19.5 km) between Tappi Misaki on the Tsugaru Peninsula in Aomori Prefecture on Honshu and Shirakami Misaki on the Matsumae Peninsula of the Oshima Peninsula on Hokkaido. The previously common ferry passage has been pushed back as a means of transport by the tunnel. Tsugaru Strait is a stretch of the Ocean's Seven .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b 津 軽 海峡 . In: デ ジ タ ル 版 日本人 名 大 辞典 + Plus at kotobank.jp. Retrieved February 27, 2017 (Japanese).
- ↑ Sea of Japan . In: Brockhaus Konversations-Lexikon 1894–1896, Volume 9, p. 872.